1A Fourth of July Tribute to Jefferson, 4 July 1789 (Jefferson Papers)
Your intention of withdrawing awhile from this court on a visit to our happy country offers an occasion which we cannot resist, of testifying those sentiments of gratitude and attachment which your conduct has taught us to realize, as the emotions of ingenuous minds towards an illustrious Benefactor. As citizens of the United States we feel a laudable pride in joining the general voice of our...
2XXV. Memorandum of Agreement between Richard Hanson and Executors of John Wayles, [7 February 1790] (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandum of an agreement entered into between Richard Hanson Attorney in fact for William Jones surviving partner of Farrell & Jones late Merchants of Bristol on behalf of the said William Jones on the one part, and Thomas Jefferson, Francis Eppes, and Henry Skipwith executors and representatives of John Wayles deceased of Virginia on the other part. 1st. It is agreed that the ballance which...
3VII. Contingent Expenses of the Department of State, 1790–1793, 14 January 1790–31 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
1790 New York Currency Jany. 14. By cash paid Archibald McLean for two sets of the daily Gazette from 1st. May 1789 to 1st. inst. at 48/. per annum £ 3 4. 0. By cash paid Thomas Allen for sealing wax, paper, binding of books and other articles of Stationary for the office 9. 7. 6. 21. By cash repaid Wm. Constable, the postage on a packet of letters he had received from Mr. Jefferson,...
4Enclosure III: Memorial of G. Aubuniere and others to Arthur St. Clair, 28 April 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Inhabitants of the Villages of the Cohos and Prairie du pont take the Liberty of informing you that in Consequence of the connection which you have been pleased to make of the Seigniory of the Cohos with the Domain of the States in which are included the Lands and commons set apart for their Cattle which they have possessed for several Years, which Lands you have led them to hope would be...
5Enclosure VII: Memorial of Pierre Gibault and others to Arthur St. Clair, 9 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
The Memorial of the Inhabitants of Kaskaskia, la Prairie du Rocher, and Kahokia, County of St. Clair. Humbly Sheweth, That by an Act of the Congress of 20th. June 1788, it was declared that the Lands theretofore possessed by the said Inhabitants should be surveyed at their Expense, and that this Clause appears to them neither necessary nor adapted to quiet the Minds of the People. It does not...
6Enclosure: Peleg Coffin, Jr. and Others to John Hancock, 13 October 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Pursuant to a Resolution of the Legislature of Massachusetts passed the 17th Ultimo we have endeavoured to collect full and Authentic information respecting the Cod and Whale fisheries as heretofore, and now carried on in this Commonwealth. Your Excellency must be sensible that in executing the business assigned us we could derive no Aid from any Public office establish’d in this Government...
7Enclosure: Louis Lagrenade and Others to the President, [24 January 1791] (Jefferson Papers)
We The free coloured people of the Island of Grenada, having taken into Consideration a Writing, the purpose of which (they are informed) is your Excellency’s generous disposition of giving that unfortunate Class of People, an Asylum in the southern parts of the States of your Excellency’s Government; have inclosed herewith, a Copy of the same humbly requesting your Excellency to Confirm its...
8Enclosure: Robert Peters and Others to George Walker, 21 March 1792 (Jefferson Papers)
In answer to your communication of Mr. Jeffersons letter to you of the 14 Inst, permit us to request the favor of you to inform Mr. Jefferson, as a piece of Justice which seems requisite to ourselves, that We are very far from being so unreasonable to expect that Maj L’Enfant would be, or to think that he ought to be, employed on either of the conditions mentioned in his first letter to you,...
9Report of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, [17 November 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
The Vice President of the United States and President of the Senate, The Chief Justice, The Secretary of State, The Secretary of the Treasury and The Attorney General respectfully report to The Congress as follows— That pursuant to the Act intitled An Act making provision for the reduction of the Public Debt and in conformity to resolutions agreed upon by them and severally approved by the...
10Enclosure: Petition from Merchants and Citizens of Maine, 29 April 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
To the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State for the United States. The Petition of the Subscribers, Merchants and Others, citizens of the United States, in the District of Maine, Humbly shews: That many of the inhabitants of this District, labor under great inconveniencies for want of a more general circulation of the Laws of the United States: none being published in said District;...